Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers">Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t</ [...]
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Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide 🔗
<p>The <a href="https://blog.pyodide.org/posts/314-release/">Pyodide 314.0 release announcement</a> (via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/it [...]
luau-wasm 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/luau-wasm/releases/tag/0.1a0">luau-wasm 0.1a0</a></p> <p>See <a [...]
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/sqlite-column-provenance#readme">Mapping SQLite resu [...]
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access">Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 an [...]
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-webrtc">OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context</a></strong></p> I bui [...]
Quoting Andrew Singleton 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies"><p>Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $ [...]
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive 🔗
<p>After two days of experience with <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/">Claude Fable 5</a> I think the best way to de [...]
datasette 1.0a33 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a33">datasette 1.0a33</a></p> <p>This [...]
asyncinject 0.7 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/asyncinject/releases/tag/0.7">asyncinject 0.7</a></p> <p>I built [...]
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-on-claudes-secret-sabotage-on-ai-research/">Anthropic Walks Back [...]
datasette-agent 0.2a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.2a0">datasette-agent 0.2a0</a></p> [...]
DiffusionGemma 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/">DiffusionGemma</a [...]
Quoting Jeremy Howard 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/2064595816875217362"><p>Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:</p> [...]
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.html">If Claude Fable st [...]
Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 🔗
<p>I didn't have early access to today's <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">Claude Fable 5</a> release, but I've sp [...]
llm 0.32a3 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32a3">llm 0.32a3</a></p> <p>Almost entirely w [...]
Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView 🔗
<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/agentsview-custom-model-price">Setting a custom price for a model i [...]
Quoting Andrej Karpathy 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2064409694761054332"><p>I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly co [...]
Siri AI at WWDC 2026 🔗
<p>Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/10/apple-intelligence/">2024 WWDC Apple Intelligenc [...]
datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-edit/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0</ [...]
micropython-wasm 0.1a2 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/micropython-wasm/releases/tag/0.1a2">micropython-wasm 0.1a2</a></p> [...]
Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM 🔗
<p>I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it migh [...]
OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode">OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode</a></strong></p> OpenAI first teased [...]
Quoting Andreas Kling 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/"><p>We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...]</p> <p>A [...]
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusiasts-are-in-a-race-against">AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI ske [...]
Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.404media.co/google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/"><p>After this story was published Goog [...]
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/uber-caps-usage-of-ai-tools-like-claude-code-to-cut-costs">Uber Caps Usag [...]
Microsoft's new MAI models 🔗
<p>Microsoft <a href="https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/">announced two new text LLMs</a> [...]
datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent-micropython/releases/tag/0.1a0">datasette-agent-micro [...]